Get Your Hands on Education

Once again, I'm going to plug Curious Cat's Science and Engineering blog:
http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2010/09/18/the-diy-movement-revives-learning-by-doing/

Being a product of the homeschool system when I was younger (before 5th grade), I got a very hands on education. I was only allowed 30 minutes of electronic entertainment per day, so Legos were my primary form of entertainment and learning. In my opinion, this was a huge factor in my choice later in life to study engineering. I think it's also a reason that most kids learn technology faster now than our parents do. I also think that the government should think about this study in education reforms. Getting tangible experience with shapes and spatial reasoning could be the key to boosting the US's failing math and science scores.